Trauma, tragedy, therapy :: the arts and human suffering /

Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives an...

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Main Author: Levine, Stephen K.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Philadelphia : Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2009.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Stephen K. Levine's new book explores the nature of traumatic experience and the therapeutic role of the arts and arts therapies in responding to it. It suggests that by re-imagining painful and tragic experiences through art-making, we may release their fixity and negative hold on our lives and resist the temptation to assume the role of the victim. Among the many concerns that the book addresses is the damage done by the tendency to adopt stock methods of understanding and superficial explanations for the depths, complexities, wonders, and exasperations of human experience. The book explores.
Physical Description:1 online resource (208 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:0857001930
9780857001931
1282392964
9781282392960
9786612392962
6612392967

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